Design and optimization methods for elective hospital admissions

Operations Research

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1265-1282

  Helm, Jonathan E ^a   Van Oyen, Mark P ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Census smoothing; Hospital admissions and bed management; Mixed integer programming; Stochastic arrival location models; Stochastic patient flow modeling

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; HOSPITALS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; LOCATION; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; STRATEGIC PLANNING; SURVEYS;

CENSUS SMOOTHING; HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS; LOCATION MODELS; MIXED INTEGER PROGRAMMING; PATIENT FLOW;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EID: 84918589566     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.2014.1317     Document Type: Article

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